Organic Division 2006 Fall Newsletter

Members of the Division of Organic Chemistry

You are invited to attend National meetings of the ACS and present contributed papers (oral or poster). Instructions for submission of papers are at the end of this letter in the section entitled "Information for Submission of a Paper or Poster." Please read them carefully. Submissions should arrive by the indicated deadline for each meeting, which is published in the membership newsletter and C&E News (January and July) and posted on the ACS Website: http://www.chemcenter.org/. Members also are encouraged to submit brief proposals to the National Program Chair for contributed symposia at future National ACS meetings. Contact: William J. Greenlee, Program Chair, Vice President, CNS&CV Chemical Research, Schering-Plough Research Institute, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, Phone: (908)-740-2220, Fax: (908)-740-7164 Email: william.greenlee@spcorp.com.

Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award Winner

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2006 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award is Ronald C. Breslow of Columbia University. This award recognizes his exemplary leadership role in the organic chemistry community. He was honored by the Division at the 232nd ACS National Meeting in San Francisco.

Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowships

Graduate fellowships in the amount of $24,000 each have been awarded to:

Emily P. Balskus , Harvard Univ. Schering-Plough Res. Institute Fellow Advisor: Eric Jacobsen Megan L. Bolla , Univ. of Calif., Irvine Procter and Gamble Company Fellow Advisor: Scott Rychnovsky Matthew B. Boxer , Univ. of Chicago Novartis Pharmaceuticals Fellow Advisor: Hisashi Yamamoto Anthony A. Estrada , Univ. of Calif., San Diego and Scripps Boehringer Ingelheim Fellow Advisor: K. C. Nicolaou David J. Gorin , Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Merck Research Laboratories Fellow Advisor: Dean Toste Kami L. Hull , Univ. of Michigan Eli Lilly and Company Fellow Advisor: Melanie Sanford Luke D. Lavis , Univ. of Wis., Madison Genentech Foundation Fellow Fellow Advisor: Ronald T. Raines

Jean-Philip G. Lumb , Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Pfizer, Inc. Fellow Advisor: Dirk Trauner Matthew Myers , Columbia Univ. Organic Reactions, Inc. Fellow Advisor: Colin Nuckolls Jason M. Nichols , Univ. of Maryland, College Park Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellow Advisor: Michael Doyle Joshua G. Pierce , Univ. of Pittsburgh Wyeth Research Fellow Advisor: Peter Wipf Christopher C. Scarborough , Univ. of Wis., Madison Nelson J. Leonard Fellowship, Sponsored by Org. Syn., Inc. Fellow Advisor: Shannon S. Stahl Joshua D. Sieber , Boston College Organic Syntheses, Inc. Fellow Advisor: J. P. Morken Andrew H. Weiss , Stanford Univ. GlaxoSmithKline Fellow Advisor: Barry M. Trost

Awards Symposia

231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA March 26-30, 2006

ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Company to Professor Stephen L. Buchwald, MIT.

ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry sponsored by Dow Chemical Co. Foundation to Professor John F. Hartwig, Yale University.

ACS Award in Pure Chemistry sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation to Professor David R. Liu, Harvard Univ.

ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution sponsored by Research Corporation to Professor Charles F. Beam, College of Charleston.

Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator sponsored by Pfizer to Professor Justin Du Bois, Stanford Univ.

Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products sponsored by Givaudan to Professor William H. Fenical, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry sponsored by George A. Olah Award Endowment to Professor G. K. Surya Prakash, Univ. of Southern California.

Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods sponsored by Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment to Professor Richard F. Heck, (Retired) Univ. of Delaware.

James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry sponsored by the Northeastern Section, ACS to Professor Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern Univ.

Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry sponsored by Merck to Professor George Barany, Univ. of Minnesota.

Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry sponsored by the Breslow Endowment to Professor Barbara Imperiali, MIT

232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, September 10-14, 2006

Arthur C. Cope Award for outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry to Peter G. Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute.

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards

Eric V. Anslyn, University of Texas
Robert K. Boeckman, Jr. University of Rochester
Franklin A. Davis, Temple University
Michael P. Doyle, University of Maryland
Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
Mark Lautens, University of Toronto
Lanny S. Liebeskind, Emory University
Brian M. Stoltz, CalTech
F. Dean Toste, University of California, Berkeley
Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois

Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis to Bernd Giese, University of Basel.

Technical Achievements in Organic Chemistry

David Betebenner, Abbott
Rodolfo Cadilla, GSK
Norman Colbry, Pfizer
Gary C. Davis, GE
Christine Ng DiMarco, Merck
Michael J. Hawkins, J&J
Julia Lam Lee, GE
Yimin Lu, Fluorous Technologies
John Moliterni, Roche
Amarnauth Prashad, Wyeth
Peter Ruminski, Pfizer
Gerry Sullivan, Abbott
Michael B. Wallace, Takeda

Call for Papers for the 233rd ACS National Meeting

Date/Location: March 25-29, 2007 in Chicago,IL
Abstracts Due Online via the Online Abstract Submittal System (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/. Extended abstracts are no longer required.

Call for Nominations

2007 Leete Award

Nominations for the 2007 Edward Leete Award will be accepted until April 1, 2007. Nominees must be members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society who have made outstanding contributions to both teaching and research.

The award will be presented no more than biennially during the fall national meeting of the American Chemical Society. The Award consists of a $1,500.00 cash prize.

Establishment. The award is named in honor of Edward Leete who, through his contributions to science and education, fostered an appreciation and love for organic chemistry. The award was endowed by contributions from Professor Leete's students and colleagues.

Rules of Eligibility. Nominees must be members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society who have made outstanding contributions to both teaching and research. Teaching should be considered in the broadest sense, including of professional chemists, the dissemination of information about chemistry to prospective chemists, to members of the profession, to students in other areas and to the general public. A nominee must also have accomplished outstanding creative work in any area of organic chemistry. Nominations should emphasize both the nominee's teaching and research contributions.

A nomination document should include:

1. A letter of not more than 1000 words containing an evaluation of the nominee's accomplishments and a specific identification of the work recognized
2. A biographical sketch, including date of birth
3. A list of publications and patents by the nominee
4. Up to two seconding letters, containing information not given in the letter of nomination, may be included. Nominations should emphasize the nominee's service contributions.

Five copies of the nomination document, supporting materials, and seconding letters (up to two) should be sent to: Dr. Gary Molander, Secretary/Treasurer, Division of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19104-6323.

Deadline: All nominations must be received by April 1, 2007

Important Notices

• Election Ballots are enclosed. Please follow the directions carefully for your vote to be valid. PLEASE USE A NUMBER 2 PENCIL TO COMPLETELY FILL IN THE CORRESPONDING BOXES. The results of each ballot shall be determined by those votes returned (envelope provided) to the Secretary-Treasurer's office: Dr. Gary A. Molander, Secretary/Treasurer, Division of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 So. 34th St., Phila. PA 19104-6323. no later than December 15, 2006. Please note under the bylaw for the Division of Organic Chemistry, Affiliates do not have voting privileges
• The 2007 Nominating Committee Report. Please see the information provided on each candidate in the insert.
• By-Laws: Changes in the wording of the Division of Organic Chemistry By-Laws are proposed. Please see the enclosure for further information
• Abstracts. The ACS is no longer providing paper books of meeting abstracts to members. This started with the 230th National ACS Meeting. To access the abstracts for meetings, you will need to use web site resources. For more information go to: http://www.organicdivision.org/abstracts.html
• Travel Awards: The Division of Organic Chemistry offers travel awards for undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, and faculty at undergraduate institutions to attend the 2007 National Organic Symposium and 2007 National ACS Meetings. Please see http://organicdivision.org/travel_awards.html for further details and application information.

ACS Sponsored Meetings

For information about attending the National meeting see the ACS meeting web site at: http://www.acs.org/meetings

The 233rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 25-29, 2007, Chicago, IL

Contributed Symposia

• Biometric Natural and Unnatural Synthesis organized by Gary Sulikowski, Vanderbilt Univ., Daniel Romo, Texas A&M Univ. & Frank McDonald, Emory Univ.
• Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Amino Acids. Novel Developments and Future Directions organized by Vadim Soloshonok, Univ. of Oklahoma.

Other Organic Chemistry Meetings of Interest

40th National Organic Symposium (NOS) 2007

Date/Location: June 3-7, 2007 on the campus of Duke University.

List of Speakers

• Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky (Columbia/Sloan Kettering), Roger Adams Award Recipient
• Professor E.J. Corey (Harvard)
• Professor Scott Denmark (U. Illinois)
• Professor Ben Feringa (U. of Groningen)
• Professor Tohru Fukuyama (U. Tokyo)
• Professor David Liu (Harvard)
• Professor Bruce Roth, (Pfizer)
• Professor Erik Sorensen (Princeton U.)
• Professor J. Fraser Stoddart (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• Professor Brian Stoltz (CalTech)
• Professor Joanne Stubbe (MIT)
• Professor Dean Toste (UC, Berkeley)
• Professor Barry Trost (Stanford U.)
• Professor Karen Wooley (Washington U. St. Louis)

8th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry

Date/Location: June 6-10, 2007 in Madison, Wisconsin
Early Registration: April 1, 2007
Web site: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/iscc8/

Organic Reactions Volumes

Current and back issues of Organic Reactions are available. For an order form and more information, visit the Organic Division web site:
http://www.organicdivision.org/orgreact.html

Information for Submission of a Paper or Poster at an ACS meeting in an Organic Division Session

Submit abstracts using the Online Abstract Submittal System (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/. If you do not have web access, contact Dr. William J. Greenlee (william.greenlee@spcorp.com), Program Chair, well before any posted deadline--See the Organic Division's Meetings page at: http://organicdivision.org/meetings.html for important deadlines.

William J. Greenlee, Program Chair
Vice President, CNS&CV Chemical Research
Schering-Plough Research Institute
2015 Galloping Hill Road
Kenilworth, NJ 07033
Phone: (908)-740-2220
Fax: (908)-740-7164
william.greenlee@spcorp.com

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Notes to authors who wish to submit a paper for an ACS meeting in one of the Organic Division Sponsored sessions:

1. Please record your ID# and Password (in left upper corner). Use these to re-access your abstract if you submit your abstract in more than one session or need to edit it. This will help avoid duplicate submissions and simplify communications.
2. The graphics appear much clearer in the book of abstracts if images are submitted as a .gif file saved directly from the drawing program, and it is suggested that you draw the structure 4 times larger than you normally would before saving it as a gif file.
3. The title is to be in lower case except for the first word in the title, the first word after a colon and proper names or acronyms.
4. Please check that authors from the same institution have the same address to avoid redundant addresses in the abstract. There is a radiobutton as new authors are added to simplify the process.
5. If multiple papers are being submitted please indicate this in the comments so that scheduling conflicts can be avoided.
6. Double check that the oral/poster radiobutton and session agree with the format of the presentation to avoid confusion.
7. Please read the instructions to authors before submitting abstracts. This will save you and the organizers time and effort in preparing the program.

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